Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:58:51 +0200 From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> To: Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: synopsis (was: Is there a mechanism for suggesting a package to be added to ports?) Message-ID: <20040902155850.GC65650@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <p061104d7bd5ceae4febd@[10.1.1.144]> References: <p061104d7bd5ceae4febd@[10.1.1.144]>
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--0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vicki Brown wrote: > Yes; I had known that synopsis required g++ 3 or higher (I was unable=20 > to download gcc 3.2 but did build 3.1) >=20 > I shall indeed try the ports/patches as recommended by you helpful=20 > people and will assuredly send all information back to the developer.=20 > He seems to be quite willing to add ifdef's and installation notes as=20 > appropriate and appeared most interested in having his package build=20 > for FreeBSD (as am I). Hi, there is probably no need for #ifdefs, since the patches necessary for FreeBSD won't break the build on other platforms. Encapsulating them with #ifdef (__FreeBSD__) is just bloat IMO. Since you seem to like Synopsis very much: Do you want to become the maintainer of the port? It's always the best thing if a regular user of a software is also its FreeBSD maintainer. It probably won't be too much work, but there are some things that need to be done: - testing on FreeBSD 4 (especially with python and boehm-gc built with 2.95 and synopsis built with 3.3) - the patches in the ports's files directory need to be sent to the maintainer (probably everything apart from patch-NOPORTDOCS) - the maintainer should be asked if the software could be made respect CFLAGS. Once you confirm that the port builds and runs on FreeBSD 4, I will submit a PR. Grab it from here: http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/synopsis.tar.gz Simon --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBN0M6Ckn+/eutqCoRAkkTAJ9B5Oquy5CHQp9jmCTLiHRcX26SpgCgpcBT vT5BRSbFZA656JN+h1CEGMQ= =LTfg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0lnxQi9hkpPO77W3--
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